Welcome to the Loggernaut Reading Series.

Loggernaut turns four!

Please join us for an anniversary reading and concert on Wednesday, April 8th, at Mississippi Studios (3939 N. Mississippi) in Portland. Doors open at 7PM, show starts at 8PM. Admission is $10 and all proceeds go to benefit the work of Write Around Portland.

We've got a terrific lineup: Carrie Brownstein, David J. Morris, and B.T. Shaw, with music by Lovers. Learn more about them here.

The prompt for April is RISK.

Please join us!

If you haven't read these conversations yet, now is a fine time to do so:

• the crackling Jim Shepard
• the prolific Jonathan Raban
• playwright Michael John Garcés
• novelist Sam Lipsytegenre bender David Shields
• poet abroad Alice Notley
• the inimitable Paula Fox
• Pankaj Mishra on Buddhism and intellectuals
• novelist Nina Revoyr returns to an old haunt.
• and much more

If you would like to find out about upcoming readings, or about new interviews and conversations on this site, please join our mailing list. Write to log at loggernaut dot org and put 'mailing list' in the subject line. (We use the list sparingly, and do not share it.)

Carrie Brownstein is a writer, musician, actor, and dog trainer. She was a member of the critically acclaimed rock band Sleater-Kinney. Browstein's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, Pitchfork, and numerous book anthologies on music and culture. She writes a music blog for National Public Radio called "Monitor Mix" and is a contributor to NPR's "All Songs Considered." Along with Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live), she is one-half of the comedic duo, ThunderAnt. She also has a feature role in the upcoming independent film, Some Days Are Better Than Others, directed by Matt McCormick. Brownstein lives in Portland where she is working on her first book of nonfiction.

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David J. Morris served four years in the US Marine Corps. He's the author of Storm on the Horizon (Free Press, 2004) and has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for Salon.com and the Virginia Quarterly Review since 2003. His work has appeared in The Nation, Slate, Der Spiegel, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007. In 2008, he was awarded the Staige Blackford Award for best nonfiction writing from Virginia Quarterly Review and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Poet B.T. Shaw has edited the poetry column for The Oregonian for nearly eleven years, and her work has landed near and far in journals such as Field, Tin House, Born, and The Burnside Review. Her first book, This Dirty Little Heart, was published by Eastern Washington University Press in 2008. She teaches at University of Portland and Portland State University.

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Lovers is busy being born. Since 2001, songwriter Carolyn Berk has established her voice under the Lovers moniker with four fell-length releases. In her latest release, I Am the West, Berk draws from a broad palate of pop textures to transform tender introspection into room-shaking anthems. Joined by performance artists and percussionists Kerby Ferris and Emily Kingan in her current live incarnation, Berk's aim is clear. With humor and honesty she escorts her audience into the world of her heart.

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Mississippi Studios is located at 3939 N. Mississippi Avenue in Portland, Oregon.